{"id":5274,"date":"2010-05-17T00:29:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T08:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2010-05-16T21:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:54:44","slug":"alabama-guard-shows-need-for-chaplains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/alabama-guard-shows-need-for-chaplains\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Guard Shows Need for Chaplains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama National Guard is a prime example of the shortage of military Chaplains (though the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/air-force-reductions-include-chaplains\/\">Air Force is currently reducing its Chaplaincy ranks<\/a>).\u00a0 With 5 Chaplains deployed, the 11,000 member state guard has 12 available Chaplains,\u00a0or 1 Chaplain for every 900 troops.\u00a0 It has no Roman Catholic priests or Jewish Rabbis.\u00a0 A local newspaper article has a good discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/article\/20100504\/NEWS01\/5040317\/Alabama+National+Guard+in+need+of+more+chaplains\">how Chaplains can deal with the shortage<\/a> of faith-specific leaders, and it demonstrates the pluralistic support of the military:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military chaplains can min\u00adister to troops of other faiths but cannot conduct the religious rites of another religion or do something that violates their own faith.<\/p>\n<p>[2Lt James] Chitwood is a Southern Bap\u00adtist, but he can suggest that a Jewish soldier pray about an is\u00adsue because prayer is a tenet of both religions, he said.\u00a0 Soldiers are more open about their religion, he said. &#8220;To them, a chaplain is a chaplain,&#8221; Chitwood said.<\/p>\n<p>At the chaplain school, they learned about serving in a plu\u00adralistic setting and understand\u00ading other faiths.\u00a0 &#8220;We can minister to one an\u00adother along common grounds and go from there,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama National Guard is a prime example of the shortage of military Chaplains (though the Air Force is currently reducing its Chaplaincy ranks).\u00a0 With 5 Chaplains deployed, the 11,000 member state guard has 12 available Chaplains,\u00a0or 1 Chaplain for every 900 troops.\u00a0 It has no Roman Catholic priests or Jewish Rabbis.\u00a0 A local newspaper article has a good discussion [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[493,5284,492,39,2,10],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-alabama","tag-chaplain","tag-james-chitwood","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}